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The Internet Archive is a project that was started 16 years ago to create a historical record of the Web's growth and development. But this virtual library
doesn't hold only web pages in its collection. It also has hundreds of
thousands of movies, millions of songs - including live versions
performed in concerts- along with maps, text items, software and more.
Last week, the Archive celebrated a new milestone: it has now saved 10 petabytes' worth of the web. (That's 10 to the 15th power!)
This announcement coincided with something of special interest to our friends in Indonesia: the Balinese Digital Library
collection is now also part of the Internet Archive. It contains music,
dance, videos - and lots of other material related to the culture of
Bali.
Check out the Internet Archive today and see what kinds of new and
interesting (or old and interesting!) things you can discover.

Scoop - NZ

The
Alliance Party is concerned about amount of misinformation circulating
about the long term unemployment. It is time for a bit of honesty both
from the government and employers.
..
The long term unemployed are out of work because employers won’t hire
them. In the current economic climate fi ...

You
can read &/or download the main argument in the first two chapters
for free.
Short description
Mitt Romney is the hoped-for figure who will fulfill Mormon prophecy and
take over the United States. This book provides warning insights into a
possible Romney presidency by exploring over 1 ...

Among
senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that
such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given
the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear
end is in sight. “We can’t possibly kill everyone who wants to harm
us,” a ...

Few
advisers personify the pugnacity of Romney’s foreign policy team better
than Bolton. He has been a steadfast opponent of international
organizations and treaties and seems never to have met a war he didn’t
like. Shortly before the invasion of Iraq, he told Israeli officials
that Syria, Iran ...

US
government prosecutors are going after some of those accused of selling
sub-prime mortgages, the trigger for the bank meltdown that led to the
financial crisis.
Bank of America faces a $1 billion civil lawsuit for fraud over the
activities of the mortgage firm Countrywide, which the bank b ...

Independent - London

New York City's transit system shut down yesterday evening and
mandatory evacuation orders were issued for swaths of the mid-Atlantic
coast of the United States as a potentially calamitous storm barrelled
down on a region of 60 million people.Related StoriesTsunami warning for
Hawaii after powe ...

A
magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada over the
weekend, prompting a tsunami warning for Hawaii that sent at least
100,000 people fleeing from shore to higher ground. The evacuation order
was later cancelled.Related StoriesTsunami warning for Hawaii after
powerful earthqu ...

Mitt
Romney has already lifted one American out of poverty. Eric Hartsburg,
from Indiana, recently used eBay to sell "tattooing rights" to his face.
A wealthy Republican paid $15,000 (£9,300) for Mr Romney's campaign
logo to be inked on his right temple. "I don't mind," the
(Romney-supporting) M ...

Lawyers
representing the family of the Premier, Wen Jiabao, have rejected
claims made by The New York Times that they have accumulated at least
$2.7bn (£1.6bn) in "hidden riches".Related StoriesContinuous armed
conflict makes education difficult in PakistanDeclining Japan loses its
once-hopeful ...

Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has
learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image
of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top
Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill
Clinton.﻿

More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are
seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great
Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even
deeper downturn. ﻿

Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a
server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released
internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.﻿

Innovation Canada

If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...

Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...

For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...

It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...

Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...

Signs of the times

How
many times have you heard someone say that to you? Angry? "Take a
breath." Confused? "Take a breath." Frustrated? "Take a breath." I think
this is one of the greatest things we can do for our own mental and
physical health. But how do you remember to take a breath when you're
angry, confused ...

Forestry Commission says surveys have turned up many more sites affected by ash dieback
The number of woodland sites in the east of England found to be infected with deadly ash dieback has leapt to more than 20.
The main concentration of cases of ash dieback - which has wiped out swaths of t ...

Tsukuba,
Ibaraki Prefecture -- Scientists say a flattened section of the moon,
3,000 kilometers wide, was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid
the size of Austria.
The moon's Procellarum basin, the dark part as seen from Earth, is what
remains of the impact crater, they said. Its vast ...

Bernard Hogan-Howe say claims made by MP Tom Watson of paedophile network 'linked to No 10' are being taken seriously
Scotland Yard is to examine allegations that a child sex abuse ring was connected to a Downing Street aide.
The Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, said on Mo ...

You
may have noticed that Daniel Craig is back, rebooting the battered Bond
brand after the dismal Quantum of Solace. And not only is Skyfall one
of the best 007 adventures for decades, it is also the most personal and
psychologically revealing to date. Maybe too revealing.
Stare hard into the ...

The Galloping Beaver

CHAMP:
Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project.
According to a report on THE VERGE, by Amar Toor, "Boeing's CHAMP
missile uses radio waves to remotely disable PCs", Boeing's Phantom
Works and the US Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy
Directorate and Raytheo ...

HOW
DOES IT FEEL to think like a psychopath? Really.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (or TMS) was developed by Anthony
Barker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield in 1985. TMS
has widespread practical uses, in both diagnostic and therapeutic
capacities, across a variety o ...

Something
about the head of the RCAF saying the fighter procurement office not
yet receiving instructions to look at not-JSFs as options and then later
saying he misspoke or something. Uh huh.
Anyway, for those still intersted, there's a link to the CBC item here.
Me, this beyond the absurd a ...

TRUTHOUT
is a fine site for concerned citizens, and Candice Bernd has an account
you should check out, "SLAPPed, Arrested, Deemed Eco-Terrorists:
TransCanada Blockaders Persevere". It seems that there are concerned
Americans, that don't want Stevie's Tar. Sure seems to have fallen in a
black ho ...

Media Matters for America

Matt
Ridley, a science writer and the author of The Rational Optimist,
frequently uses his Wall Street Journal column to dismiss the threat of
climate change and argue that climate scientists should not be trusted.
But experts say that Ridley, who is an advisor to the right-w ...

Meet
the Press host David Gregory helped Republican Governors Scott Walker
(WI) and John Kasich (OH) take undeserved credit for the job recoveries
in their states. In separate Meet the Press interviews, both governors
took credit for an increase in jobs during their term, but Gregory did
not poi ...

New
York Times columnist David Brooks claimed on Meet the Press that
President Obama's recent comments to the Des Moines Register differed
from his comments on the campaign trail. In fact, as Washington Post
columnist E.J. Dionne pointed out to Brooks, Obama has committed to
comprehensive immigr ...

On
Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume claimed that Fox News is doing "all the
heavy lifting" on covering the September 11 attack in Benghazi and
criticized other media outlets for supposedly failing to adequately
cover the story. Yet during the same broadcast, Fox figures pushed
multiple distortions abo ...

Fox
Business host Lou Dobbs claimed that during the attack on the U.S.
diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CIA operatives were ordered to
stand down instead of aiding those under attack. But Dobbs did not
mention that the CIA has denied that its operatives were told not to
help those in need ...

A
former mass-murdering dictator notorious for his rule during the
Gwangju Massacre and for his unscrupulous theft from the South Korean
people was granted a diplomatic travel passport from the South Korean
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on September 18.…

The
USA has come up with a new Americas defense concept. On October 4 the
Western Hemisphere Defense Policy Statement saw light outlining the
major security vision for the next decade or longer.It makes precise how
the January 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance will shape the US
Department of Defen ...

In
the latest token civil suit by the Obama administration against a major
Wall Street bank, the Department of Justice on Wednesday charged Bank
of America with wholesale mortgage fraud.
The complaint filed by the US attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara,
alleges that from 2007 through 2009, Ban ...

TPM Cafe

You
could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the
head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré,
suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch"
of government on the Internet's operations.
M. Touré will be running a majo ...

The
political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate
over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better
than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One
key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a
differen ...

Hoping
to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National
University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created
somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that
authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael
Madison has inadvert ...

The
right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of
my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one
article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types
cannot contain their feeling of triumph.
There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...

Water - AlterNet

Few policy issues separate Barack Obama and Mitt Romney more widely
than the environment and energy. One man believes human activity is
driving global warming, the other questions to what extent humans are
responsible. One advocates federal support for renewable energy
technologies, the other ...

This article was published in partnership
with GlobalPossibilities.org.Some two and a half years after the BP oil
spill, Greenpeace has obtained emails and photos from a U.S. government
agency that reveal the extent to which the government tried to shield
the public from the wildlife casu ...

This article was published in partnership
with GlobalPossibilities.org.Some two and a half years after the BP oil
spill, Greenpeace has obtained emails and photos from a U.S. government
agency that reveal the extent to which the government tried to shield
the public from the wildlife casu ...

This article was published in partnership
with GlobalPossibilities.org.They are back: blue mussels and menhaden
have returned to Long Island Sound this year in huge numbers. On this
40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, we can celebrate their
homecoming as a sign of the progress made r ...

Public Citizen in Texas

Even
Support from Businesses Like IKEA Is Not Enough for PUC AUSTIN, TX –
The Public Utility Commission delivered a slap in the face to the more
than 6,000 Texans and 70 businesses and organizations who have actively
called on the Commission to implement and expand the non-wind renewable
portfo ...

From
the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s
personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are
some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so
out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o
...

We
are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of
the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week. We hope you will join
us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the
William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701
We are [...]

Actress
Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor
Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction
on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home
and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...

Grassroots

For
the past year, Stop the Wall and the Union of Agricultural Work
Committees (both Grassroots International partners) have been working
diligently with their Palestinian and Brazilian allies to fulfill the
call issued in 2011 at the World Social Forum in Dakar. Then,
participants expresse ...

Israeli
settler violence against Palestinians and their property, which
escalated this summer, is on the rise again with this October’s olive
harvest season in the West Bank. Officials from the United Nations as
well as activists in Palestine and Israel are calling on Israeli forces
to intervene ...

On
May 1 of this year, my colleague Saulo Araujo (Program Coordinator for
Latin America) and I spent the day with Rafael Alegría, a leader of the
Vía Campesina based in Honduras. The video below offers some of his
reflections.
Rafael’s message is clear:read more

kwpalogo.jpg
Last Wednesday, October 10th, in New York City, I had the privilege of
witnessing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award the fourth annual Food
Sovereignty Prize to the Korean Women Peasant’s Association (KWPA).read
more

Climate

(NYT Green)
At the end of next year, Qatar Airways is scheduled to open a new
airport that will include a 25-meter swimming pool and squash courts,
among other amenities. But it will also be extraordinary from an energy
stand ...

(Christian Science Monitor)
Saudi Arabia has announced that they made a major new find in natural gas in the Red Sea.
The Saudis are already ranked 5th in the world for their reserves of natural gas, but they ...

(Reuters)
China's largest state-owned utility State Grid Corp will allow some
solar power producers to connect to the national grid for free, in a bid
to help the ailing solar industry, the official China Daily newspaper
said ...

(IPS News)
Tokelau, a small Polynesian territory in the central Pacific, has
surpassed the rest of the world in replacing fossil fuels and raised the
benchmark of achievement on sustainable development.
Located north of Samoa, the thr ...

Duly Noted

Ethiopia
and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours
fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over
a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style
conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have
continued to this ...

Greece's
creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly
agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember
one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Greeks
smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of
opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are
underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than
elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

Winds
are picking up. I just moved the cars to a part of our lot where they
have the least likelihood of being hit by trees or branches. There are
no totally safe spots from downed trees. The basement is flooding and
the pump is set up and will hopefully work. Long Beach Island's dunes
have a ...

We're
still here got the kayak paddles at the ready in case we have to make a
break for it tomorrow But seriously, school is closed Monday and
Tuesday, my office is closed tomorrow and maybe Tuesday, and we're just
waiting for the oldest to get home from work tonight. Apparently, we are
pret ...

The
Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote about a Categorial
Imperative that can be defined like this: A command which
expresses a general, unavoidable requirement of the moral law. Its three
forms express the requirements of universalizability, respect and
autonomy. Together ...

Appearing
on a Sunday morning talk show for the one billionth time, Sen. John
McCain made one of the stupidest accusations since Dan Burton shot a
watermelon in his backyard. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday
that the Obama administrations handling of the situation in Libya is
either t ...

Setting
aside any shenanigans the Republicans pulled in Ohio in 2004, the
takeaway (as I remember it) was that Kerry had met his turnout model
target but was overwhelmed by an unanticipated level of turnout in the
rural areas of the state that was driven by evangelical organization.
Karl Rove h ...

Environmental Graffiti

Take
a regular seahorse, shrink it down, and you have a baby seahorse. A
fraction of the size but twice as cute! Yep, baby seahorses are pretty
hard to hate.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article

From
the painted desert badlands to the rainbow-colors of petrified wood,
the Petrified Forest is one national park you won't want to miss.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article

The
Vegetarian Festival of Phuket takes body piercing to a whole new level,
with everything from motorbike parts to beach umbrellas used to
puncture the skin.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article

When
they are operational, power plants are constant hives of industry. Once
closed, however, they make perfect sites for urban exploration.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article

Every year, approaching two million pilgrims converge on Mecca to perform the mandatory once-in-a-lifetime rituals of the Hajj.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

"What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces
and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other
people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no
matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere
you are or how mu ...

‏@AnonNCarolina2 - We spend all night informing ppl about indefinite
detention only to be placed at the top of the list by some dumbfuck.
#StopNDAA#Anonymous - SOURCE
Fortunately #stopNDAA at least hit a huge volume on twitter during
tonight's presidential debate. So... Synchronicity in the F ...

A
review of the latest internet dickering, with mostly unrelated useful
new programs & ideas at the end...
It ain't a 'war' but several prominent representations of the anon flock
are speaking out against Wikileaks and it's not just the Javascript
paywall (disable JS to get around it). This ...

For
better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got
to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my
life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until
probably early October. For more frequent updates see
https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...

Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...

Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...

Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...

FACT:
The Department of Defense is the world's top property owner. In the
United States alone, DOD occupies 1.9 billion square feet of office
space - about three times the floor space of all the nation's Wal-Mart
stores. Worldwide, DOD has more than 2 million people working on 5,000
sites in 41 ...

Our
so-called self-government rarely agrees with what we tell pollsters,
and yet it does what it does with our acceptance. We may have fallen
for the pretense that we're powerless. Our ignorance and xenophobia
should never be underestimated as explanations for what we do. But c
...

The
presidential election of 2004 left much to be desired. Millions of
votes were suppressed, and the evidence is overwhelming that votes were
flipped by interested parties. Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
summarize:
"The widespread use of electronic voting machines from ES&S, ...

Some
friends of mine have gotten arrested more times than I can count now
for the offense of protesting drone use outside Hancock Air Field near
Syracuse, N.Y. Sometimes they've blocked the gates to the base. Often
they've been aware of the risk of being arrested. But they've g ...

Grist - News

by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...

by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...

by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...

by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...

by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Time - Top Stories

A
new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple
their risk of dying early compared to non smokers, and that kicking the
habit can virtually eliminate this increased risk of premature death

Invisible Opportunity

Marin
Katusa Casey Research Exxon Mobil is no longer the world’s number-one
oil producer. As of yesterday, that title belongs to Putin Oil Corp –
oh, whoops. I mean the title belongs to Rosneft, Russia’s
state-controlled oil company. Rosneft is buying TNK-BP, which is a
vertically in ...

It
got a lot of attention this morning when I tweeted, “You’re Eight Times
More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist.” It’s
been quickly retweeted dozens of times, indicating that the idea is
interesting to many people. So let’s discuss it in more than 140
characters. In case ...

By
Visible There are some number of people who react to the concept of
total surrender to the cosmic will. They feel incapable of giving up
that amount of autonomy and they have bad memories of all the orthodox
factions, who have wrung so many bloody nickels out of the whole affair.
They distrus ...

by
Christopher-Peter: on October 26, 2012 at 10:35pm Health Canada has
asked Novartis, the maker of 20 per cent of the country’s flu vaccines,
to halt distribution of two brands while they consult with European
agencies about an odd finding. Several European countries, including
Italy, Germany a ...

(LONDON)
– Anonymous hackers compromised over twenty million user accounts
world-wide this year to promote Operation Jubilee. Large community web
sites were targeted to gain access to users’ contact information. Many
administrators denied that their databases were at risk while all t ...

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a
huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four
giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or
commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia
Guidestones, or the ...

THE
CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys
upstairs")
We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the
Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has
not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to
pu ...

In
his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision
of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban
growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course
of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history
plus eye-op ...

Dear
Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead
and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for
those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Whether
we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the
possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their
trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading
Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute
the air ...

US
Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days
after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well?
Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York
Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...

Unlike
the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit
more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to
Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and
biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable
(read: cryable ...

Kids
often accuse their eco-minded parents of taking recycling and DIY
projects to a level that is socially suicidal, especially during
holidays like Halloween. So we put together a series of awesome
cardboard box costumes that not only save the environment by keeping
more junk out of brimming l ...

“Smarter
Socks” could only have come from one of the world’s wealthiest and most
efficient nations. Based in Switzerland, BlackSocks sells packs of ten
pairs of socks that are each fitted with radio-frequency ID buttons.
After an accompanying wireless reader called the Sock Sor ...

Everyone
loves pancakes! The breakfast standby is one of the most universally
appealing foods. But if you’re ready for a delicious twist on your
trusty flapjacks, you must try these organic pumpkin pancakes topped
with homemade honey butter. They are a delightful meal any morning (or
any t ...

Pogue's Posts

If
you install Windows 8, you'll have to learn both environments, like it
or not; you can't live in just one environment or the other. So how are
you supposed to operate it if you have a nontouch computer? David Pogue
provides a cheat sheet.

David
Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his
attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is
worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the
least of our automotive distractions, he says.

Whatever
the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps
app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it,
the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.

Nobody
ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how
hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with
executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years
and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.

WIRED Magazine | Science

The
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers an impressive view of the centre
of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of
stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globular cluster, which
contains a high concentration of stars with different colours.

Colour
composite image of RCW120. It reveals how an expanding bubble of
ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding
material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed.
The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA
camera on th ...

Sometimes
a closer look doesn't make things more clear. And at microscopic
levels, even familiar things can become completely unrecognizable. Can
you guess what these award-winning microscope photos are of?

NASA's
MESSENGER spacecraft has constructed the first portrait of our solar
system by combining 34 images taken by the spacecraft’s Wide Angle
Camera on Nov. 3 and 16, 2010. The mosaic, pieced together over a period
of a few weeks, comprises all of the planets except for Uranus and
Neptune, whic ...

PakAlert

CBS
News has released a clip of an interview by Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes
on Sep. 12 with President Barack Obama that indicates Obama knew the
assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a premeditated
terror attack--and suggests the White House later deceived the public by
blaming prot ...

It’s
the great brain robbery.
The city Medical Examiner’s Office has kept the brains of more than
9,200 deceased New Yorkers — from the elderly to newborns — in the past
eight years, records obtained by The Post show.
The stunning revelation comes as three families publicly question whethe
...

If
you are just starting to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, the truth is that
you are already too late. Most of the essential supplies have already
been stripped from store shelves. If you don't have an emergency
generator, you might be without power for quite some time. It is being
estimated th ...

For
years the Mayans have been fighting against the doomsday myth
surrounding the incorrect reading of their ancient calendar.
As the date of December 21, 2012 approaches the hype has caused an
increasing amount of distress for the indigenous Mayan people,
especially with their homeland in Gu ...

A
B.C. teen who aspires to be a journalist says his rights were violated
when he was set upon by security guards and then arrested by police
after photographing an incident at Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby,
B.C.
Jakub Markiewicz ,16, said he was in the mall in September and took a
pictur ...

Andy Worthington

Please
visit the Save Lewisham A&E website to take action! It’s far too
easy, nowadays, for people to sit back and let sweeping and deadly
political changes take place because they believe that resistance is
futile, but if you live in south east London — and specifically in the L
...

Eating
and Commuting: Borough Market and London Bridge, a set on Flickr.
Following the three previous photo sets (two from Soho, and one from
Bankside, between Blackfriars Bridge and Southwark Bridge), this set
covers the last part of my journey through London on September 7, 2012,
as I travelle ...

Between
Bridges: Wealth and Loss in Bankside, Between Blackfriars and London
Bridge, a set on Flickr. The photos in this set — the 48th in my ongoing
project to photograph the whole of London by bike — were taken in
Bankside, on September 7, 2012, after I returned from the journey ar ...

I
wrote the following report exclusively for the “Close Guantánamo”
campaign and website, which I established in January with US attorney
Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be
counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo,
and to receive upda ...

Back
Streets and Shop Fronts: Photos of Soho, a set on Flickr. This is my
second set of photos of Soho (following my first set here), taken on
September 7, 2012 (a very sunny Friday) as part of my ongoing project to
photograph the whole of London by bike. The 24 photos in this set [...]

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...

Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...

The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...

Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...

So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

If
a white man is attacked and murdered because he was “hanging out” with
black friends, should that be investigated as a federal hate crime?
That question looms in Louisiana after 24-year-old Michael Luke “Boulon”
Darby was fatally stabbed earlier this month outside a bar in
Lafayette, where he ...

James
Timothy Turner, the enigmatic president of the antigovernment
“sovereign citizens” group Republic for the united States of America
(RUSA), has told his followers that despite his incarceration on federal
tax charges, he is still very much their leader. And as for his legal
problems? That’s ...

It
happened again this week. A woman in Louisiana told police that she had
been set afire in a horrifying hate crime Sunday — only to have police,
after a full-tilt investigation, say yesterday that she had fabricated
the story.
Sharmeka Moffit, 20, set herself on fire in a park in Winnsboro, La ...

Update:
Late Tuesday afternoon, authorities in Louisiana said Sharmeka Moffitt,
a 20-year-old African-American woman, set herself on fire in a park in
Winnsboro, La., Sunday night and faked what appeared to be a brutal,
racially motivated hate crime. The alleged attack rattled the small city
of ...

change: org.

A
haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been
making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A
6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a
suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a
rock hiding packing ...

In
late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan
support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being
charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence
after a sex ...

The
shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing.
Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji.
Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an
intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred
her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...

Wow.
Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho
posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary
of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to
stop deporting tal ...

Robert
Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United
Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda,
where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay.
Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to
...

Common Dreams -News

PANSALGOLLA,
Sri Lanka - The old adage ‘nature is the great equaliser’ no longer
holds true in countries like Sri Lanka, where the poor bear the brunt of
extreme weather events.
Gamhevage Dayananda, a farmer from the remote village of Pansalgolla in
Sri Lanka’s north-central Po ...

As
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall on Monday, meteorologists predict a
powerful storm that will cause power outages for millions, a storm surge
creating massive inland and coastal flooding, and sustained winds that
are threat for those living in urban and more rural areas across the
northeast.
...

Yemeni
officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people
in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada
province.
Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a
search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no
confi ...

Yemeni
officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people
in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada
province.
Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a
search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no
confi ...

Lifehacker

When you don't have a view, make one. That's what Debbie and Devin
did with their home workspace, thanks to a giant graphic poster.
White-ish walls can make a room boring, but sometimes all it takes is
one point of interest to liven things up. If your workspace is feeling a
little dull, t ...

Android: Alongside a great update to Android 4.2, Google
released some new hardware to run it. Along with a new Nexus 4
smartphone, they're finally offering up a 10" tablet to compete with the
iPad—at a fairly lower price. More »

Hurricane Sandy is on its way to the East Coast, and most of you
are probably bundled up in your homes preparing for the oncoming storm.
We're wondering: What do you guys have stashed away in your emergency
kits? More »

Although still considered Jellybean, Google updated Android to
version 4.2 today and added several great new features including
gesture-based typing, multiple users, and actionable notifications.
More »

Water Privatization

Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson was commended
recently by Philippine Water Works Association (PWWA) President Edgar
C. Lopez for strongly advocating for a balance, collaborative
public-private partnership (PPP) over privatization as the long-term
solution in the developme ...

MILITANT
groups remained steadfast in opposing the corporatization of the Baguio
General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC). As part of a nationally
coordinated action against the privatization of medical hospitals all
over the country, multi-sector groups led by Anakbayan, Innabuyog
Gabriela, ...

BACOLOD
City Councilor Carl Lopez is supporting the position of the Bacolod
City Water District (Baciwa) employees union in opposing the enactment
of Senate Bill No. 2997 authored by Senator Edgardo J. Angara that aims
to privatize the water and sanitation industry. He said that the
privatizatio ...

One
group says Allentown voters should be the ones to decide if the city's
water and sewer operations are leased. A group of residents is passing
around petitions in hopes of getting the issue on the ballot next May.
"Whether or not our citizens are for privatization or against privatiz
...

Bernard
Hogan-Howe says claims made by Tom Watson MP of paedophile network
'linked to No 10' are being taken seriouslyScotland Yard is to examine
allegations that a child sexual abuse ring was connected to a Downing
Street aide.The Metropolitan police commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe,
said on Mo ...

Former
president fires up college audience by criticising Romney on climate
change, student loans and economic arithmeticBill Clinton spearheaded
the drive to get the crucial youth vote out for the Democrats in swing
state Florida on Monday, stepping in for the president to fire up a
student aud ...

Pro-tourism
supporters plan rally but locals protest against large vessels clogging
up canals and risking damage and pollutionA simmering row in Venice
over massive cruise liners that clog the city's canals has intensified,
with supporters planning a rally to defend the importance of tourism to
...

Stephen
Hammond says Harwood Film Partnership scheme is legal and he does not
have to declare his involvementA government minister who criticised
Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone for avoiding tax is an investor
in a firm that also uses tax breaks, and has failed to declare it to
parliame ...

Vortex2,
a two-year field study of tornadoes in the nation's midsection, is
prompting researchers to reconsider theories on how twisters develop, a
leader of the project said Friday.Click to Continue »

A
national study published this year in the Journal of the American
Medical Association reported that the number of babies treated for drug
withdrawal after birth nearly tripled between 2000…Click to Continue »

To
date, the Afghan campaign has claimed 39 Australian defence personnel,
including Private Benjamin Chuck, who was killed in a helicopter crash
in Kandahar Province on June 21, 2010.Not a day goes ...

KABUL
- An Afghan army officer says a pre-dawn raid in the eastern province
of Ghazni killed four Taliban and three civilian bystanders. Lt. Ghulam
Sarwer Attai, who commanded the special army unit ...

Futurismic

Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...

I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...

So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...

Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

NWC
nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner
and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story
reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government.
Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian
taxpay ...

A
recent White House directive on national security whistleblowers has
sparked a major dialog in the whistleblower community. You can read the
National Whistleblowers Center's press release on the directive here.
Below is a full-text analysis from the Whistleblower Support Fund's
Linda Lew ...

Today,
the U.S. Department of Labor issued a summary of the September 2012
decisions of its Administrative Review Board (ARB). The twelve
decisions issued in September cover important procedural issues
involving the time limits for filing complaints and petitions for review
to the ARB, con ...

On
October 5, 2012, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals conducted oral
arguments in Wiest v. Lynch, a case that tests the scope of protection
for whistleblowers under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, attorney Richard Angino argued the case for Jeffrey
Wiest. ...

Today
the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) in an amicus brief filed by the National
Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The brief urges the Federal Circuit to
reverse the holding of its panel decision in Berry v. Conyers. There,
the Co ...

Science Express

(PhysOrg.com)
-- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side
effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the
stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by
scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides
additiona ...

Supermassive
black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge
growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new
study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii.
Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.

A
team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other
institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus
that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure
reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses
common in the early 20 ...

(PhysOrg.com)
-- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an
interesting choice when deciding which males should father their
offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then
produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with
spe ...

TechDirt

2012
has been yet another year filled with meritless lawsuits filed solely
to chill First Amendment free speech rights -- so-called Strategic
Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). As websites relying on
user-generated content continue to increase in popularity, we also see a
rise in SL ...

By
now you've probably seen the paraphrase of a Ben Franklin quote that
those who give up liberty for security, deserve neither (he said similar
things a few different ways, but the standard actual quote is: "Those
who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary
Safety, deserv ...

We've
written about the Wiley v. Kirtsaeng case many times already, but it's
an important one to follow. While everything else in DC closed down to
bunker down for Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court Justices decided to
soldier on and actually hear the case today. Joe Mullin has written up
the m ...

It's
no secret that the "War on Terror" has resulted in little more than
steady paychecks for those in the loop and plenty of rights erosion
everywhere else. As was detailed earlier this year, the New York Police
Department has decided to follow in the clumsy footsteps of the FBI's
anti- ...

Earlier
this year, we wrote about how a minority owner of the Miami Heat,
Ranaan Katz, was so upset about an "unflattering photo" that a
blogger/critic had posted of him, that he apparently bought the
copyright on the photo and sued the blogger, claiming copyright
infringement.
For the sak ...

VacTruth

The
American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing
the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into
experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of
this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA
publish ...

In
2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a
collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia
Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a
new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1] Reporting on a
study published in th ...

Secret
papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical
researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations
and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Does
anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing
with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their
policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of
these questions.

A
parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering
if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I
have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to
boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to
take becau ...

BroadSnark

Took
this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of
the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town.
Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps
they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more
about putti ...

The
Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this
book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any
book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor
who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer
Prize-winning wr ...

Follow
CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s
penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if
you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938,
you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...

By
now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s
piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it
as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals
are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can
neve ...

Not
much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff
coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello.
Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The
High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]

War in Context

Iran’s
Mehr news agency reports: Member of Parliament Esmail Kosari announced
on Sunday that Iran has photos of restricted areas in Israel, which were
transmitted by a drone launched into Israeli airspace earlier this
month. On October 6, Israel shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by
...

Stephen
Walt writes: What if our current policy towards Iran actually works,
and Tehran gives in to every one of our demands? You’d think that would
be a crowning diplomatic success, wouldn’t you? Think again. In fact, a
one-sided triumph over Iran might solve little, because a deal ...

Time
reports: Why should Americans care about Mali? Many probably asked
themselves that question during the last presidential debate, when Mitt
Romney twice mentioned the northwest African nation, a place most
Americans might be hard-pressed to locate on a map. Yet seven months
after Islamic mil ...

Joseph
Dana reviews Occupation Diaries by Raja Shehadeh: Where has all the
excitement gone for statehood in the West Bank? A year ago in September
there were festivities and public displays of hope on the streets of
Ramallah; one year later, little attention was paid to Palestinian
Authority (PA ...

UPDATE:
The NWS in Mt. Holly NJ has put out an extraordinary statement,
dropping the typical “gov speak” and pleading to people in direct
language. See below. GOES-14 has been brought into service again on
October 25th, 2012 for SRSOR … Continue reading →

Shock,
awe. Untruncated and unspliced data used in a new paper from Briffa and
Melvin at UEA restores the Medieval Warm Period while at the same time
disappears Mann’s hockey stick. Here’s figure 5 that tells the story:
Look at … Continue reading →

No
word on whether Supermandia will appear in costume I was surprised to
learn of this new program from the NNB scheduled for Wed 31 Oct 2012
21:00 on BBC Radio 4. Nice touch on the gloved hand there folks. …
Continue reading →

Biosingularity

A
study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers suggests
that specific populations of tumor cells have different roles in the
process by which tumors make new copies of themselves and grow. In
their report in the May 15 issue of Cancer Cell, researchers identify a
tumor-propagatin ...

For
decades, scientists have studied Caenorhabditis elegans – tiny,
transparent worms – to glean clues about how neurons develop and
function. A new Harvard study suggests that the worms’ nervous system is
much more capable and complex than previously thought, and has a way to
monitor its ...

A
novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously
unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for
treating psychiatric disorders, University of Chicago researchers
report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in
anxiety, scientists uncovered ...

Researchers
have identified a compound that could correct a mutation and stop
cancer from spreading — a development that could eventually be used to
treat tens of thousands of cancer patients in the United States each
year. In a study published today in the journal Cancer Cell, four
scientists f ...

Medicine’s
focus has long been on treating specific diseases. We have radiation
treatments to combat cancer tumors, cholesterol-lowering drugs to stave
off heart attacks, and insulin to control diabetes. But imagine if there
were a drug that would slow down the aging process itself, a drug ...

CFACT

There’s
a lot more at stake for America on November 6th than Sesame Street or
free contraceptives for female grad students. Like, for example, whether
or not anti-carbon regulatory obstructionism based upon flawed science
and crony politics will continue to escalate energy costs, kill jobs,
and ...

A
few years ago, Germany was “fully committed” to the EU’s goal of ending
fossil fuel use. It was building lots of wind turbines, and even some
solar farms despite its often-cloudy skies. After the tsunami, Prime
Minister Angela Merckel announced Germany would phase out its nuclear
plants quickl ...

The
duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be
matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion,
amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded government grants,
and persuading people to send them money and invest in “ethical” stock
funds.

Initially,
President Obama passed on the gasoline price issue, but Governor Romney
picked it back up, noting that, "When the President took office, the
price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now
it's $4.00 a gallon." Obama had to agree on the prices, but had some
very ...

President
Obama boasts that, "We have increased oil production to the highest
levels in 16 years. Natural gas production is the highest it’s been in
decades." What's this "we" stuff? Romney counters, "the president’s
right in terms of the additional oil production, but none of it came on
federal ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

The
launch of South Korea's KSLV-1, its first space launch vehicle, which
was due to take place on Friday morning, has been put off owing to a
minor failure in its Russian-made Khrunichev RD-191 first-stage rocket
motor, the Russian space agency said.

A
Russian Soyuz TMA-06M spaceship with the new crew of the International
Space Station (ISS), which took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday,
docked with the station successfully on Thursday, Russia's Flight
Control Center (TsUP) said.

Pruning Shears

Ohioans
have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get
their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The
biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on
the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...

Maha
has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a
link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a
Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain
Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many
former emp ...

The
NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today,
is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how
little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.
This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing
union-buste ...

From
here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought?
There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to
think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is
symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow.
...

The
trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years
ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional
convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The
Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and
it’s defi ...

Organic Consumers.org

Religious
and faith-based groups across California, including the Presbyterian
Church, United Methodist Church and California Council of Churches, are
urging people to vote Yes on Proposition 37, the California ballot
measure to label genetically engineered foods.Click here to read this
article

The
dispute over whether Californian GMO labeling initiative Prop 37 will
prevent manufacturers from using the term 'natural' on foods that
contain no GMOs at all continues to rage, with Yes and No campaigns
offering diametrically opposed interpretations of this critical aspect
of the legislatio ...

A
group of Bay Area hospitals -- including UCSF Medical Center, John Muir
Health and the San Francisco VA Medical Center -- bought thousands of
pounds of organic strawberries, green beans and stone fruit this summer
from local farmers as part of a larger effort to support sustainable
agriculture ...

Center for a Livable Future

Now,
after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a
number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530
kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010,
the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.

If
pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we
can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we
can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be
causing.

October
seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful
harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second
year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are
on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused
as t ...

As
of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After
spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on
the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards
this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to
make [.. ...

My Care2 Picks

Seeing
the RSS for Counterpunch down I decided to scan some articles - which
served as a jumpoff for an overview of the Iranian menace stories
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Iran
is being killed for a lie.
http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/
False witness noted
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=about
http://www.leadingtowar.com/ Sanctions
opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/12/19
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For
over 20 years SSI has been releasing, on average, more than a trillion
becquerels of tritium into the environment every day.
http://ccnr.org/Tritium_Blog_12_09_08.pdf
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Canadian
researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than
the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain
parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot
caused more physiological issues
Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...

A
new documentary has captured some of the most compelling visual
evidence of climate change to date, with batteries of time-lapse cameras
recording entire glaciers melting over a span of three years.
Submitted by Tinkie K. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a ...

When
it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over
the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you
money. It is up to you to decide if money today is...
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Today
sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food
tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that
eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway...
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Few
decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major
schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were
surprised at the numerous opportunities they were...
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As
the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger
group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online
courses are a realistic option for young students...
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ISIS
Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and
deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most
in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them
at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön
and his ...

Why
is the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which puts out the
Non-GMO Shopping Guide, sponsored by Silk, which is owned by Dean Foods,
which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting GMO
labeling in California? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?

ShareThisNYSE
and Nasdaq to close --New York Stock Exchange located on Wall Street in
a flood zone 28 Oct 2012 U.S. stock exchanges will be closed Monday as
Hurricane Sandy bears down on New York. The New York Stock Exchange said
in a statement late Sunday that it will close its markets Monday. ...

ShareThisFederal
offices in Washington area closed Monday due to storm 28 Oct 2012
Federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area will be closed to the
public and non-emergency federal employees will be granted
administrative leave on Monday as Hurricane Sandy approaches. The U.S.
Office of Perso ...

ShareThisEarly
voting cancelled in Maryland on Monday due to approach of Hurricane
Sandy 28 Oct 2012 Hurricane Sandy was already making its presence felt
in Maryland politics on Sunday, forcing the cancellation of early voting
for at least a day and scuttling a U.S. Senate debate. Gov. Martin O'
...

ShareThisDC's
Metro subway and bus system to shut down on Monday 28 Oct 2012 All
Monday Metro service, both rail and bus, has been cancelled, Metro
officials said Sunday night. In explanation, the officials cited the
expected high winds, the likelihood of widespread power outages, and the
closin ...

Daily Loaf

I
like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books
that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you
may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet,
here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]

Victory
Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown,
Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such
beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory
has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the
United States. St ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

According
to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake
of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers
identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more
latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when
such tiss ...

‘The
prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment,
project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is
gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and
discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal
and ...

Due
to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition
will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while
differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current
Medical Industry ...

‘Poliomyelitis
(polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades
the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three
(over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...

We
are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode
the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a
race to gain complete control over our inherent right to
self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

A
few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG
washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them.
The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a
Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little
luxur ...

Today
a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new
thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If
you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the
Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air
conditi ...

After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I
decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted
our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on
the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also
installed a new ...

Our
family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do
once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old
daughter realize where food comes from.
While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around
the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...

I
received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which
claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm,
or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what
might be a good deal fo ...

24
October 2012
Mullah Omar
Google has a function called “Alerts.” This function allows users to
program keywords and receive daily updates from the web. Using alerts
is like having your own investigative wing scouring for information on
topics of interest. Two of the k ...

WrittenBy:
Bing West
NATIONAL REVIEW October 22, 2012
A U.S. ambassador is missing and his diplomatic team is desperately
fighting off terrorist attacks. Our commander-in-chief and his
national-security team in Washington are listening to the phone calls
from the Americans under attack and watc ...

22 October 2012
The following email came from Mark Safranski subsequent his reading this letter from Colonel (ret.) Harry Tunnell. The letter.
===Email from Mr. Safranski:===
Interesting, this part in particular:
""A gross lack of concern for subordinates," Tunnell wrote, "manifests it ...

The Killing Train

Gunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him.
Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine.
Here is the press release from PMU.

Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC.
Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian
government suspended orders to capture the 29 members of FARC's
negotiating team as long as the negotiations take place, but have warned
that they will ...

I
just wrote a review of Albert, Azulay, and Marty's Fanfare for the
Future: Occupy Strategy at amazon:
***
Full disclosure: I write for ZNet and come from this school of thought,
so this is a knowledgeable review, but not an 'objective' one.
read more

I
have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making
sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material
published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part
of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long
time, so i ...

The
Karen National Union (KNU) reinstated the Karen National Liberation
Army's Commander-in-Chief Mutu Say Poe and the KNU’s Social Welfare
Department head Roger Khin after the two were dismissed last month

Jurist - Legal Research

[JURIST]
The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a
subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday.
This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between
Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were
countersuit ...

[JURIST]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
[official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill
8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in
Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it
violates ...

[JURIST]
The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of
England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the
British government for torture they suffered while in detention under
the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe
ruled th ...

[JURIST]
The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition
of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week
after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave
its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved
[JUR ...

[JURIST]
The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its
reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large
international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of
the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court
ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

Twitter
is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a
variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care
reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in
frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl
...

Resurgent
Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in
surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats --
because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have
not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been
increasingly ...

Confirming
rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced
today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to
"communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state
spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our
welfare ...

For
progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe
Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's
Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew
Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of
his acti ...

Tikun Olam

After
three films which bashed Muslims and raised howls of racism and
Islamophobia around the world, the group that used to be Clarion Fund
has decided to tout Israel alone in its latest major project, Israel
Inside. It appears they’ve gotten tired of Swiftboating Arabs and have
now opted ...

I
reported here last year on one of the greatest stories never told in
the Israeli media: that education minister Gideon Saar had sex in a Tel
Aviv club with an underage girl; that all the Israeli reporters knew
this and that none could report it. Though this blog gets the discreet
attention of ...

I
significantly expanded upon a post I wrote here about the Israeli
elections for my latest piece in Tikkun Magazine. It lays out the thesis
that Israeli electoral and party politics are essentially dead.
Netanyahu will win the election, but that nothing will change for the
better and nothing c ...

Israel’s
Mossad continued its campaign of sabotage through the Arab world with a
bombing at one of Sudan’s national weapons factories in the national
capital, Kharthoum. Though Sudan said only two workers were killed in
the explosion and several wounded, given the stories told by ey ...

Global
Post has published an important overview of Israel’s role as major arms
exporter fueling the Armenian-Azeri conflict. Recently Azerbaijan
announced a $1.6-billion arms deal with Israel that would bring its
drone fleet to 100 including Israel’s most advanced Heron model. Here
...

If Americans Knew

Noam
Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even
some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the
world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his
vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices
resulting from t ...

Ethan
Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is
the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine.
It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes
in a story and what gets cut.

Stuart
Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing
untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged,
to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township
of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime
to I ...

And
there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he
understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is
the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically
stealing American technology with both military and civilian
applications. The US dev ...

International
security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that
Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of
American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered
American security.

David J. Gregory

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As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and
more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not
only will you ...

Big
news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could
give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us
online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but
finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the
GOP Corporat ...

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Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in
Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction
books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...

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EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book,
63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...

As
a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional
committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports
that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American
people have been very clear. They understand how important Social
Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

The
Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to
investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of
advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of
Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a
reality. To ...

Four
years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of
The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless
nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the
repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation
in creating the hund ...

On
Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader
of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is
radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil
disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not
radical. Radica ...

There
is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are
condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the
government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t
damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it
...

It
seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite
NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to
give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a
stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s
...

Over
the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim
commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility.
When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t
commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de
...

Rep.
Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American
Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t
cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax
dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and
urgent issue of ...

One
of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be
that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as
members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them.
Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East
Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...

The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the
disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the
fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt.
“I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we
saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

This
post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and
originally appeared on the Lab's blog.
A team from Medill and Poynter recently presented their findings on an
Eye Track Study for tablets, that sought to answer two questions: 1) How
do people choose what to read? and 2 ...

I
sent an e-mail from a hotel room in Berlin in September of last year,
while completely blitzed out from jet lag. In it, I mentioned the idea
of putting together a site that could serve as a center-point for a lot
of the amazing code being written in the journalism community. The
response I got ...

One of our bold beliefs here at Watchup has always been to iterate fast
over users' feedback. Watchup is a Stanford startup, incubated at
StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and as such we always try to
apply the design thinking principles to our work.
The latest version 1.4 of your ...

Many
months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki
project in Antarctica.
In. Antarctica. Antarctica!
The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a
region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States
base on the Antarctic Pen ...

It's
Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh
anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social
media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS.
'Democratization of Development'
In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...

Cutting Edge News

As
he showed in the final presidential debate, President Obama's
understanding of the U.S. Navyâ€”or for that matter, any navyâ€”is
suboptimal. His explanation about Navy carriers "where planes land on
them," and "ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines," left out the
largest single group o ...

President
Obama said, referring to Osama bin Laden's killing, "If we had asked
Pakistan permission, we would not have gotten him." But if Pakistan
can't be trusted, the president owes the American people an explanation
of how he'd deal with a nuclear-armed impoverished country over the next
four ...

For
many years, it seemed as if the Westâ€™s real plan for dealing with the
Iranian regime was to talk it to death. Occasionally, a new round of
sanctions would be announced, but they were never really very serious
sanctions. Sure, they angered their targets in Tehran, but not enough to
stop the ...

A
month after the murder of four American officials in Libya on Sept. 11,
congressional testimony and leaked government cables have revealed that
some U.S. officials immediately recognized that terrorists had planned
the attack. So why did the Obama administration's top policy
makersâ€”including ...

Putting
a speed limit on cargo ships as they sail near ports and coastlines
could cut their emission of air pollutants by up to 70 percent, reducing
the impact of marine shipping on Earth's climate and human health,
scientists have found. Their evaluation of the impact of vessel speed
reduction ...

Races
for seats on state commissions that oversee utilities are among the
most important elections you’ve never heard of. They could decide the
future of renewable energy in Montana and Arizona this year.

CounterCurrents

By
Cynthia McKinney
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign
media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000
U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent
into Libya

By
Franklin Lamb
The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that
contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya
that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring
the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...

By
Peter Symonds
The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military
strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier
groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of
war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...

By Toby ORyan
Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits
for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to
have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?

Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...

Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...

A
friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along
some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has
written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the
competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our
young p ...

Yid With Lid

There
are many domestic reasons to vote for Mitt Romney on election day, most
of which have been covered on these pages over since he became the
apparent GOP nominee in the spring.
There are also foreign policy issues, the one most relevant to the
Jewish community is the future of ...

UPDATE: CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood, though, denied the claims that requests for support were turned down.
"We can say with confidence that the Agency reacted quickly to aid
our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi," she said.
"Moreover, no one at any level in ...

Listen
to the sad voice of Charlie Woods talk about how his son Tyrone was
denied the military help that could have saved his life. This is not
about politics, this is about a dereliction of duty which led to the
death of four brave Americans and the lack honesty coming from the Obam
...

Just
when you thought it was safe to go back to the television set. There
were twenty-six debates during the GOP primary season, one debate for
the VP candidates and three more for the two presidential candidates.
One would think that a total of thirty debates was enough--but no. In
...

Maybe
I am getting old but I feel this latest commercial for President Obama
is disgusting. This video targeting young adults that compares voting to
having sex for the first time. There really are not words to describe
the ad except wonder if he would really like for his two little girls to
thi ...

The Real Agenda

Journalist
arrested for disclosing a list of tax evaders By LUIS MIRANDA | THE
REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 29, 2012 Investigative journalist
Kostas Vaxevanis will go on trial for publishing the
so-called ’Lagarde list’, which contains the names of 2,059 Greek people
with bank acc ...

By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 26, 2012 WikiLeaks published
early this morning hundreds of documents from the Department of Defense
that describe the procedures established by the US government to be used
with suspects detained by the American government who were sent to t
...

Freedom
of choice when it comes to injecting — or not — a poisonous vaccine may
be a thing of the past if the AMA has its way. By CHRISTINA ENGLAND |
VACTRUTH | OCTOBER 26, 2012 The American Medical Association (AMA)
recently published a paper proposing the introduction of ...

Wind Watch

Germany
is dumping electricity on its unwilling neighbors and by wintertime the
feud should come to a head. Central and Eastern European countries are
moving to disconnect their power lines from Germany’s during the
windiest days. That’s when they get flooded with energy, echoing
struggles seen ...

Town
officials and community members from the Jefferson County towns of Cape
Vincent and Lyme gave BP a clear signal at a meeting last night in Cape
Vincent: a wind farm isn’t welcome there. Hundreds turned out for the
meeting. Signs reading, “BP Go Home!” filled the town recre ...

PLYMOUTH
— Pick a wind turbine, any turbine at all, and chances are the project
is under attack. The one at Camelot Park is the exception. But this
364-foot turbine is located nowhere near residential properties, unlike
the majority that have been proposed in America’s Hometown. “We have
nine wi ...

The
planned wind turbines in southern Öland may cause the area to lose its
World Heritage status. The warning comes from the Swedish Department of
ICOMOS, which is the UN organization UNESCO expert bodies, reports
Ölandsbladet. World Heritage area Southern Öland comprises over 56,000
hectares. T ...

Protesters
across Tayside and Fife marched on the SNP conference in Perth at the
weekend to add their voice to opposition to the Scottish Government’s
windfarm policy. Coinciding the mass protest with Alex Salmond’s address
to the party faithful on Saturday, the campaigners claimed h ...

Tippers News

Three
men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they
had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been
told.
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

The
three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for
transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex
trade have appealed against the verdict.
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Coastal
Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including
sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now
Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the
United States
Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...

Sixteen-year-old
human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison
without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot
her pimp.
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

The Freeman

Can
a rationally planned economic order outperform the market process as a
means of using resources efficiently? This is the central question
behind one of the most important debates in the history of economic
thought. Its answer has profound implications for the material
well-being of societie ...

Ever
since the Royal Navy converted its ships from coal to oil in 1911, oil
has been a “strategic” resource. Powerful nations whose fleets and
economies depend on abundant, readily available oil have schemed and
when necessary fought to make certain they would be able to get all the
oil they wan ...

Finland
and Iceland are experimenting with hive democracy (my term for
crowdsourcing ideas for legislation). I suppose it’s fine as far as it
goes. It seems like the practice gives people more ‘voice.’ But it
doesn’t do that much for ‘exit.’ Consider these sch ...

Up
until recently, one of the brightest lights in today’s blogosphere was
EconLog’s Arnold Kling. (Alas, he recently decided to opt for the essay
form.) He was one of the few bloggers whose every post I read and
pondered carefully. When I found myself objecting to something that
Arnold had writt ...

Now
that the Honduran Supreme Court has struck down legislation that would
allow for a Hong Kong-style free city to spring up in that corrupt and
beleaguered country, the Jamaican government is now sitting up and
taking notice. Officials with the corporation (MKG) that would develop
free cities ...

Teaching Online Journalism

What do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.)
Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.)
Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...

One
meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism.
There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully
disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism”
is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...

Like
any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats
tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching
for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and
whether it’s smart to be a journalism major.
I teach about online journali ...

Having
just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts:
1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately
represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique
of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p
...

I’m
catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about
the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this
article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious
transgressions:
Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com
I think one thi ...

Facing South

As
protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline
originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf
Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of
lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of
expression. ...

In
the hope that we are seeing a major turning point in the relationship
between Wal-Mart and its workforce, it is worth looking back at the
company's record to recall just how bad its behavior has been.
read more

Civil
rights leader Judith Browne Dianis of The Advancement Project makes the
case for a new constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote,
which most of the world's democracies already have.
read more

The
Southern Environmental Law Center has filed a complaint on behalf of
four environmental advocacy groups asking state regulators to require
cleanup of documented groundwater contamination from coal ash storage
ponds at 14 power plants owned by Duke Energy and its Progress Energy
subsidiary.
...

Telegraph UK - oil

The
Telegraph's Investigations correspondent Duncan Gardham explains why
the murder in Brussels of ExxonMobil executive Nicholas Mockford has led
to suspicions his death may have been a professional assassination.

Ian Welsh

Jack
Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s. But so what? He was
right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy
produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey. Ordinary people
know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed
the # [...]

Jack
Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s. But so what? He was
right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy
produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey. Ordinary people
know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed
the # [...]

If
this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones
are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost
nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.
Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is
sophisticated, they ...

If
this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones
are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost
nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.
Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is
sophisticated, they ...

The
post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t
notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have
used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At
least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever,
as we all kn ...

Reality Asserts Itself

My
colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where
she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is
Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and
journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez
has become a terr ...

A
few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met
Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She
was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It
changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the
Israeli childr ...

I
listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find
something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of
such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important
issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become
...

Ban
Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding
in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond
anybody's imagination".
At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have
died, and disease and hunger will c ...

Many
economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's
being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the
recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more
serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy
and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

An
ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human
disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node”
of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China
meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and
genetic medicine ...

Americans
may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug
company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to
produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US
government officials announced 13 December.
The approach is an alternative to conve ...

A
National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its
recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria,
'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort
was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says
task force co-chair J ...

More
than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by
governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between
2000 and 2010, a new study reports.
This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long
term, concludes the study by the International Land ...

Forget
Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the
underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of
aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a
former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company
that aims to ...

new geography

There
may be no better illustration of President Barack Obama’s appeal than
his ability to hold onto voters — minorities, single moms and young
people — who have fared the worst under his presidency. But the bigger
question as we approach Election Day may be whether these constitue
...

One
of the more curious developments in American politics over the last
two decades is the political malpractice of Republicans in dealing with
Hispanic-Americans. Indeed, it now appears that the 2012 election may
well be determined by the share of the Latino vote that Governor Mitt
Romney ...

When Americans think of oil executives, they tend to conjure up the
image of J. R. Ewing: slick smile, sharp suits, cowboy boots, and a
10-gallon hat packed with bluster, vanity, and greed. According to
Gallup, no industry is more widely reviled than oil and gas—not even
banking, real e ...

After
the financial crisis of 2008, much of Great Britain's construction
industry capacity was wiped out. Now, in 2012, there is much fear that
the “traditional” construction industry is too weak to rapidly increase
the rate of housing production, even if the administrative planning
system wante ...

There
is general agreement that smaller units of government are more
responsive and accountable to their electorates. However, proponents of
larger governments often claim that this advantage also creates
higher spending and tax levels. On this basis, bigger-is-better
proponents often sugg ...

GM Watch

NOTE: The "20 Minutes" article referred to can be found here:
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/1031256/trois-ministres-environnement-demandent-revision-autorisations-ogm (French)
There's also an interview with Corinne Lepage
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/1031274/corinne-lepage-on-fait-croire-u ...

It
could hardly have been more damning - six French science academies
jointly dismissing Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini's recent paper in the
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology as a "scientific non-event."
Or so it seemed until news began to trickle out about how few people had
actually been inv ...

It
could hardly have been more damning - six French science academies
jointly dismissing Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini's recent paper in the
journal Food and Chemical Toxicology as a "scientific non-event."
Or so it seemed until news began to trickle out about how few people had
actually been inv ...

Cryptogon

Via:
New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be
more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors,
which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in
Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the
building i ...

Via:
Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for
answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing
firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal.
Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in
New York, w ...

Via:
New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought
threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling
the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated
and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations
struggl ...

Via:
Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called
designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes
them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical
ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...

Via:
WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because
the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one
rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United
Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for
success. &# ...

The Economic Collapse

Meteorologists
are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm
to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years. Do you
remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991? That storm was so bad that
Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it.
Well, ...

If
you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly
because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the
United States is about to start getting worse again. Over the past
several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced
disappointing ...

Have
you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because
you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through
the next month financially? Have you ever felt the desperation of not
being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though
you tr ...

What
if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the
federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for
the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve
banking and that would dethrone the big banks? Would you be in favor of
such a ...

Either
way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get
slaughtered by the millions. During this campaign, Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the
"outsourcer in chief". Unfortunately, they are both right. Barack
Obama and Mitt Romn ...

Desertification

FOR
YOUR INFO Dear Readers, I underwent surgery on October 16th. Everything
went well. My doctor advised me to take some weeks of complete rest.
Therefore, I will resume this blog as soon as I feel fully fit again.
Thank … Continue reading →

SEEN
AT :
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation
Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a
fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators
are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...

SEEN
AT :
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem
Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This
film highlights the global problem of desertification ...

A
message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle
towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea.
I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in …
Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

After
Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, cancelled more than $800,000 in network
television advertising last week, the conservative Congressional
Leadership Fund super PAC stepped in to fill the void.Renacci, a
Republican just finishing his freshman term, faces Rep. Betty Sutton, a
three-term Democrat, i ...

The
big five health insurance companies have begun reporting their third
quarter 2012 earnings and so far, they are pleasing their shareholders
with profits that are better than Wall Street expected, in large part
because they are doing especially well in one key area: Medicare.Over
the past sev ...

Ranking:
8Total contributions to super PACs: $8.3 million*$6.8 million to RGA
Right Direction PAC (pro-Republican)$1.5 million to Republican Governors
Association Ohio (pro-Republican)Notable state-level contributions:$8.3
million to the Florida Republican Party (2010)$6 million to
Pennsylvania ...

Editor's
note: This story was first published by the Center for Responsive
Politics, where Robert Maguire is a researcher and Viveca Novak is the
editorial and communications director. When Crossroads GPS went up with
an ad last week accusing Democrat Tim Kaine of wanting to raise taxes,
it wasn ...

The
origin story of the secretive nonprofit that is leading efforts to
invalidate Montana’s campaign finance laws keeps getting murkier.In a
document filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the group claimed
Jacob Jabs as its “primary donor” who had “agreed to provide $300,000”
to get the group ...

backofthebook.ca

By
Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well . . . answer the question.
Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down,
because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other
Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his
father Joseph, I’m ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget
coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some
appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it
would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
Symbolic of the shif ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms
in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget
. . . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The
mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government
is setting here. E ...

By
Frank Moher Once again, Israel has illegally intercepted and boarded a
vessel bound for Gaza with humanitarian supplies, this time with a
modest contingent of 30 aboard, including former Canadian MP Jim Manly.
The ship was in international waters when it was surrounded by six IDF
boats and, a ...

By
Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for
Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after
years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last
few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part
of [. ...

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On October 16th, Metro Justice, Take Back the Land
Rochester, and other community partners came together for a rally and
march under the idea that housing is a ...

foxconn-factory-shenzhen-2012_small.JPG
Two incidents of mass unrest at Foxconn factories
made worldwide headlines in late September and early October 2012. The
leading customer Apple had just release ...

Free Range International

This
will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first
time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to
October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best
posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]

Our
little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother
Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his
IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big
pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]

Editors
note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas
Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner
than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well
as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]

Editors
Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from
the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother,
Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to
living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the
FRI bl ...

Dalton
continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for
change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this
cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T)
did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217
...

The Story Behind the Story

Here
is yet another independent analysis of the stark truth – posted by Dr.
Kevin Barrett on Veteran’s Today website. People get really upset when
they read my earlier posts, their collective COGNITIVE DISSONANCE makes
them unwilling and unable to grasp the true facts. The Bottom Lin ...

This
is not “Fiction” people. This is Fact. When do We The People say
ENOUGH???? A Comprehensive History of Zionist Crimes Revised November
26, 2011 (removed Bali “micro nuke” story – insufficient evidence;
updated 9/11 information) Preface It was decided to ...

Oh
yes, it is all just one big “conspiracy” – and anyone who even dares to
entertain the thought that POTUS “elections” are a hoax must be
certifiably insane. Let’s just take an objective look at the facts.
First a direct quote: “You know very well, and the st ...

From
my friend and colleague in Truth, John Hankey comes this 40 minute
video on the FRAUD that is Mittens Romney: Commentary from Alex James:
Romney’s secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his
role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through
...

This
has to be filed in the “What Were They Thinking?” waste bin. The
American Flag is a symbol that means a great deal to American vets – men
who bled and comrades who died to raise the emblem on the mountain top
at Iwo Jima. Unfortunately, to many others The Flag has sadly b ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

There’s
a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and
Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting
to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at
certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who
...

Here’s
a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s
discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways
of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil
fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Hockey
and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about
headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really
changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great
players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the
present, takes on tho ...

Scotts Contracting

But
first I’ll give you a little background on the Building
Building History There were many clues
for determining the age of the building. First Clue was the type of
Bricks used. When St Louis hosted the Worlds Fair. The city planners
realized that ho ...

I
am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill
offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I
signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and
emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy
Blunt are at the bo ...

GRATITUDE
OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have
been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed
that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little
Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...

Climate
change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s
estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this
century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out
more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...

Proskauer
Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging,
putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic
tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said
"we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that
would ...

"The
slave like mentality towards Israel is absolutely unjustified. We need
to start raising the bar for Israel and holding them to an equal
standard for supporting human rights and international laws " Green
Party Candidate , Jill Stein.

TEHRAN
— With an economy struggling through some of the most punishing
economic sanctions in history, Iran is looking inward to meet its basic
needs while attempting to change the consumption habits of a society
accustomed to enjoying a range of foreign products.

If video won’t play go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p_NretS7To
Brilliant news summary by Wide Awake News anchor Charlie McGrath.
McGrath reminds us that the garbage the mainstream media feeds us
regarding the US political system, the US economy and the war on ...

Mail Online photo According to the British Mail Online, Pakistani
human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar has filed two separate court cases
intended to trigger a formal murder investigation into the roles of two
US officials responsible for ordering drone strikes which killed
teachers, student ...

Syrian "rebel" -
note black al Qaeda flag in background According to an October 14thNew
York Times artice: “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi
Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the g ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

By
Walt De Vries
From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign
strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign
research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in
the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...

From
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq
War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn:
In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative
reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative
Italian Prime Minister Sil ...

Original
...
Q
And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the
assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't
mention it.
MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question.
Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about
blackmail ...

On
Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012
WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give
you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they
got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the
things that can happen in a presiden ...

From
'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a
candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012:
"The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make
serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if
you're in a position of responsibilit ...

\Kasaba
throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during
a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death
penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly.
Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit
at the camera ...

For
SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight
people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered
injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah
Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two
heads, beli ...

For
SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON:
Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that
political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime
and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes
caused damage ...

Energy Collective

For
those who aren’t regular readers of Climate Progress, here’s more of
the literature on how man-made carbon pollution is making many of the
most destructive kinds of extreme weather events — Frankenstorms – more
frequent and more intense.

Another
project backed by the U.S. Department of Energy is pumping renewable
electricity to the grid. NRG Energy and SunPower said this week that
California Valley Solar Ranch, which is being helped along by a $1.237
million loan guarantee from the Feds, flipped the switch on the first 22
megawa ...

Unfortunately,
many of the leading firms in the electricity storage industry paid
scant attention to electricity consumers over the past few years. Those
firms spent that time counting their federal grant dollars and just
sort of hoping that a market for advanced batteries would suddenly
appear.

EU Times

Along
with Britain’s anti-monarchy campaign group Republic that campaigns for
a democratic country consisting of an elected head of state, there
seems to be a high level of public support for abandoning the monarchy
in some of the nations of the Commonwealth. In 16 of the total of 54
Commonwealt ...

American
scientists have identified a male beluga whale capable of making
human-like sounds and spontaneously mimicking human conversations.
According to a paper published online in Current Biology, researchers
heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC emitting sounds octaves below
normal ones. The ...

We
were recently given the news that over 30 retail shops close every day –
suggesting that the demise of the High Street is gaining momentum. Many
reasons are put forward for this demise but the reason we see so many
empty shops is really very simple – and the reason incidentally, I got
out [...]

New
space debris could threaten the International Space Station and other
space missions after Russian rocket ‘Briz-M’ recently exploded into some
500 fragments, most of which are now floating in low Earth orbit. ­The
rocket was previously floating inert in space after it failed on a
mission to ...

Switzerland’s
Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter says his country does not support
any unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear energy
program. Burkhalter told reporters after a Thursday meeting with his
Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow that Bern is against uni ...

Stonecipher News

From
Chris Stonecipher's
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz
page: It is important to be value neutral
wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing
your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging
to th ...

With
the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed
to determine if video games, violent television shows and other
electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A
(2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that
video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

That may have been the worst half I have seen in years, the Cowboys
can’t seem to get out of their own way. The Giants don’t even need to
play defense when the Cowboys are just giving the ball away on miscues
and mistakes. Dez Bryant is in his 3rd year and still looks like a
rookie. He’s not wo ...

Ignore the fact, if you will, that two of Oakland’s three victories are
against 1-6 teams, but they are a Broncos loss to the Saints away from a
first-place tie in the AFC West after their win against the Kansas City
Chiefs today.Sure, it was the Chiefs, just as last week it was the
lowly

Walter Russell Mead: ... .... As various departments and officials leak
to save their careers and retaliate against rivals, grenades keep
getting lobbed and emails and memos keep getting leaked. The result is
that the attack in Benghazi isnât fading out of the news

Box Score: Cleveland Browns 7, San Diego Chargers 6 Use this as your
open thread for Sunday's late games and Sunday Night Football That's it.
I'm done. The San Diego Chargers may be 3-4, but they're 1-4 in their
last 5 games and each of those four losses has come in embarrassing
fashion. I thou ...

There were high hopes coming into this season for the Carolina
Panthers. There was talk of making it back to the playoffs, a newspaper
ad guaranteeing a Super Bowl win, and the return of Offensive Rookie of
the Year Cam Newton. But after another disappointing loss following the
firing of GM Mar ...

Groklaw

It's
not an exaggeration to say the outcome could affect the very notion of
property ownership in the United States. Since most consumer electronics
are manufactured outside the US and include copyrighted software in it,
a loss for Kirtsaeng would mean copyright owners could tax, or even
shut do ...

Hurricane
Sandy may shut down much of the federal government and halt public
transport in Washington, D.C., on Monday but it will be business as
usual at the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices - appointed for life -
pride themselves in all manner of staying power.
The country's highest court is ...

Two new Android devices, the Nexus 4 handset and Nexus 10 tablet will go on sale on 13 November, Google has announced.
The handset, made by manufacturer LG, can also work as a games controller when wirelessly connected to a TV.
Google said that the screen of the new Nexus 10 tablet by Samsung ...

We
are currently witnessing a major pivot in Microsoft's core business
model. It is starting to become clear that - as Steve Ballmer recently
announced - Microsoft is deadly serious about becoming a global leader
in consumer "Devices and Services." Successful execution of this
strategy will requ ...

Is
the Hollie Greig story a hoax? That's the opinion of disaffected former
supporters of the story, who went searching for basic evidence to
support the claims of Robert Green and Anne Greig, and found it
completely lacking.

Politics in the Zeros

My
business website, bomoco.com , is now in WordPress. Among my
specialties is Clipper and FoxPro migration, converting mission-critical
database programs written in the 1990′s to Windows and the cloud.What’s
that you ask? Such dinosaur programs are still running? Yes, they are.
Clip ...

From
my sister this morning near Hartford CT, which is about 40 miles
inland. “Wind howling. Expected to hit with wind around noon, full force
by dinner. Winds on coast already 45 mph.” The Connecticut shoreline is
going to get clobbered. It’s mostly second homes owned by the w ...

Just World News

I
realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis,
for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more
importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so)
people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis--
one that, whe ...

I've
recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in
The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to
much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma.
Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to
The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...

1.
War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone.
Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the
commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely
committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the
exacerbation of tensions can ...

Despite
many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political
situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the
most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does
carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out
there i ...

In
these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were
battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"--
designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily
by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly
that they would turn ...

frogblog

Parliament
was preoccupied by two major pieces of law last week, alcohol law
reform and climate change. Climate change We can no longer debate
whether Climate change is real or man-made, the science is
unchallengeable and the signs increasingly visible. Pacific countries
know this, because they ...

The
Lobbying Disclosure Bill has been in the media again this week as
submissions continued at select committee. One of the recurring
questions raised by submitters was why New Zealand needs a disclosure
regime, given that we already have a relatively transparent system.
While this may be true i ...

This
is the day we acknowledge the huge contribution of our teachers to our
lives and communities. A teacher who helps students liberate their
imagination and capacity is a lifelong gift. Yes, we can all remember
teachers who acted as if they would rather have been in the army or
spoke in incomp ...

On
Wednesday I had the awesome opportunity to speak to a class of 8 year
olds at Eastern Hutt School about Maui’s dolphins. It was such a great
day, while I was there I got to listen to their poetry and see all the
effort they have put in to raising awareness and wanting to make a
difference. I ...

J Kozy

What goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of
the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds
clash in loggerheads.

History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral
institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is
and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is
notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it
has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...

The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes
up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive,
humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...

Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their
institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored
group.

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

By
Dr. Mercola
If you've ever seen a pink flamingo or dined on wild Alaskan salmon,
you've seen astaxanthin, found primarily in a type of marine algae, in
action.
When flamingos and salmon eat astaxanthin (or the creatures that consume
it, such as krill, algae or shellfish), it turns them p ...

By
Dr. Mercola
Leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and
energy expenditure, may be one of the most important hormones in your
body that will determine your health and lifespan. Insulin is another,
and the two work in tandem.
Both insulin and leptin resistance ...

By
Dr. Mercola
One of my own recent interests has been brain plasticity - the ability
of your brain to recover, repair, and regain functionality that had
previously been lost. This idea conflicts with the conventional view
that once you lose brain function, it's permanently lost.
Dr. Daniel ...

By
Dr. Mercola
If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause
of death in America, writes surgeon Dr. Marty Makary in the Wall Street
Journal.1
By some estimates, they may actually be the leading cause… These errors
kill the equivalent of four jumbo jets' worth of pa ...

By
Dr. Mercola
Bitter Seeds is the last film in the Trilogy produced by Teddy Bear
Films. The first two, Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town, and China
Blue were released in 2001 and 2005 respectively. So far, the films
have won 20 international awards, aired on over 30 television channel
...

Montreal Gazette

Jean-François
Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison
with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and
for international relations, he is writing in response to an open
letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...

Jean-François
Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison
with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and
for international relations, he is writing in response to an open
letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...

The
July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life
out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion
Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew
lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.

Food World Order

There
is a new article making the rounds in the mainstream media this
morning. It is similar to some which surfaced last month about a study
condemning organic food, and it's purported health benefits. These
articles and the studies they report on compound cognitive dissonance in
the public, all ...

from drtimball.com: “It occurred to me ….. ” Global warming is another
undelivered government promise. Polar Bears were chosen by Al Gore as
the poster animal for global
warming. They added emotion and drama to his story about melting arctic
ice. This was necessary because most peopl ...

from activistpost.com: For the first time in history, a biologically
plausible mechanism of action has been discovered linking a vaccine to a
serious adverse event. Gardasil has left behind its genetic fingerprint
in post-mortem central nervous system samples of two girls who took
this vaccine ...

from zerohedge.com: Against a deflationary environment of
austerity-driven wage and pension cuts combined with rising
unemployment; food, commodity, and fuel prices continue to surge in
Greece. The government has taken an unusual step - allowing the sale of
expired food at lower prices. As Voz ...

from reuters.com: U.S. soft drink company Coca-Cola Co is teaming up
with French drugmaker Sanofi to launch a line of drinks in France that
will claim to aid health and beauty.
The partnership calls for the co-development and distribution of drinks
under the Oenobiol "Beautific" brand, a Co ...

CrusadeWatch

source:
Huffington Post, 8/24/2011
Michael Mungai
Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids
I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the
outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my
two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

source:
Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011
Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect,
were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle
village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some
dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...

source:
Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011
Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures
around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom
and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West
Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...

source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011
In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged
Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with
having sex with young girls and getting them to abort
S Shyam Prasad

Whole Truth Coalition

COTO
Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi,
Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large
portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian
police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo
...

“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax.
Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent.
His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...

COTO
Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day
interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the
free zone
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

Meteorologists
are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm
to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years. Do you
remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991? That storm was so bad that
Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it.
Well, ...

If
you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly
because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the
United States is about to start getting worse again. Over the past
several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced
disappointing ...

Have
you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because
you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through
the next month financially? Have you ever felt the desperation of not
being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though
you tr ...

What
if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the
federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for
the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve
banking and that would dethrone the big banks? Would you be in favor of
such a ...

Either
way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get
slaughtered by the millions. During this campaign, Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the
"outsourcer in chief". Unfortunately, they are both right. Barack
Obama and Mitt Romn ...

The Talking Clock

Just
remember that death is not the end...
So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the
many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me
in my little sidestep venture:
http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/
Blogrolls need to be added and the ...

On
the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has
posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first
time)...
...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than
replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters
on Twi ...

Here
are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment
Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of
Commons yesterday.
Bill Cash MP
Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt
to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...

Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in
public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at
the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the
invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Part of Tutu's thinking ...

As
is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left
at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death.
Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more
than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click
on the th ...

Facing South

As
protestors in East Texas continue to fight construction of a pipeline
originally proposed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf
Coast refineries, builder TransCanada has threatened them with a type of
lawsuit designed to stifle citizens' right to assemble and freedom of
expression. ...

In
the hope that we are seeing a major turning point in the relationship
between Wal-Mart and its workforce, it is worth looking back at the
company's record to recall just how bad its behavior has been.
read more

Civil
rights leader Judith Browne Dianis of The Advancement Project makes the
case for a new constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote,
which most of the world's democracies already have.
read more

The
Southern Environmental Law Center has filed a complaint on behalf of
four environmental advocacy groups asking state regulators to require
cleanup of documented groundwater contamination from coal ash storage
ponds at 14 power plants owned by Duke Energy and its Progress Energy
subsidiary.
...

CenterLine

Karen
Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security
(CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities.
Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the
Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →

Today’s
Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the
staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular
thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn
O’Hara … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King
Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third
congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States
Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to
Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments
Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy
weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing
Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers,
one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in
2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Tech Drive In

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is here already. A lot of new features has
been added, but overall performance remains a major cause of concern.
Feedback from our readers also point to such a direction. You can find a
number of interesting reactions from users in our previous post
discussing Ubun ...

"Avoid the pain of Windows 8. All new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now," reads
Canonical's official banner announcing the arrival of Ubuntu's latest
iteration, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Pretty strong language, I must
say. It is a normal practice in the corporate world to NOT name their
biggest comp ...

I'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic
about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that
doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which
was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been
around&nbs ...

On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big
disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an
alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to
get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not
there yet. So ...

The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand
new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you
the impression that, things have really been improved and enough
features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done
in the next rel ...

Case About Bird Flu

Sipping
some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one
of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian
Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God
protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the
Annexatio ...

You
read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank
Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“
opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the
solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as
Justice Minister. ...

At
a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized
the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the
Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all
today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve
banking scam ...

*Frank
Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the
sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and
chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign
the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a
second document: Schw ...

Here
it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry
dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and
Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the
incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine
with ...

Invisible Opportunity

Marin
Katusa Casey Research Exxon Mobil is no longer the world’s number-one
oil producer. As of yesterday, that title belongs to Putin Oil Corp –
oh, whoops. I mean the title belongs to Rosneft, Russia’s
state-controlled oil company. Rosneft is buying TNK-BP, which is a
vertically in ...

It
got a lot of attention this morning when I tweeted, “You’re Eight Times
More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist.” It’s
been quickly retweeted dozens of times, indicating that the idea is
interesting to many people. So let’s discuss it in more than 140
characters. In case ...

By
Visible There are some number of people who react to the concept of
total surrender to the cosmic will. They feel incapable of giving up
that amount of autonomy and they have bad memories of all the orthodox
factions, who have wrung so many bloody nickels out of the whole affair.
They distrus ...

by
Christopher-Peter: on October 26, 2012 at 10:35pm Health Canada has
asked Novartis, the maker of 20 per cent of the country’s flu vaccines,
to halt distribution of two brands while they consult with European
agencies about an odd finding. Several European countries, including
Italy, Germany a ...

(LONDON)
– Anonymous hackers compromised over twenty million user accounts
world-wide this year to promote Operation Jubilee. Large community web
sites were targeted to gain access to users’ contact information. Many
administrators denied that their databases were at risk while all t ...

Veterans Today

With
Sudan partitioned and Kenya currently operating in Somalia and stories
of terror cells springing up across Africa filling American and Israeli
“pop culture” news, the world is hearing the death knell of America’s
colonial adventure in the Middle East.”

electric politics

If
you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American
politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The
modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible —
even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College —
n ...

Quite
apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so
much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and
open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans'
Right To ...

In
our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture —
even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to
know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they
used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...

Coal,
because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy
possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed,
compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon
fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon
Democracy, bring ...

According
to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of
Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we
should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction
between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether,
indeed, ...

Stop NATO

Voice
of Russia October 29, 2012 Hillary seeking a graceful exit? Boris
Volkhonsky ==== nstead of ending the two wars, Obama and his foreign
policy and security team have bogged down in one of them for an
unspecified time, and would have done the same in Iraq as well had they
not irritated the h ...

Global
Times October 29, 2012 Shadow of war hasn’t yet disappeared from East
Asia By Guan Yan Illustration: Liu Rui As tensions in East Asia grow,
driven by conflicts over islands, China’s rising power, and the renewed
US role in the region, some find the situation disturbingly remin ...

Xinhua
News Agency October 27, 2012 U.S. veterans call for immediate end of
Afghan war LOS ANGELES: U.S. veterans on Friday called for an immediate
end of the War in Afghanistan and slashed both U.S. presidential
candidates for their identical positions on the war. The appeal came in a
strongly ...

Trend
News Agency October 26, 2012 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State: U.S.
support Georgia’s integration into NATO N. Kirtskhalia Tbilisi: The
Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Eric Rubin
has expressed support for Georgia’s territorial integrity and its
integration i ...

Trend
News Agency October 26, 2012 Dempsey: US sent troops to Turkey many
times to assist in anti-terror efforts X-band missile radar of the type
deployed to Turkey in January Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Martin Dempsey has said there have been many times when the US sent
teams ...

Intel Hub

Andrew
Gavin Marshall | When politicians, economists, and other refer to
“financial markets,” they are in actuality referring to the
“super-entity” of corporate-financial institutions which dominate,
collectively, the global economy.

Washington’s
Blog Oct 28, 2012 … and if you question it, you are “a horrible moron,”
concludes Peter T. King, Chair of the House Committee on Homeland
Security. This 2-minute video from We Are Change Luke Rudkowski
powerfully captures what US “leadership” has become. The good news is
their arrog ...

FRS

Mahsa
Alimardani, published on The Vancouver Observer
(http://www.vancouverobserver.com) Oct 26th, 2012 The world’s seat of
international law, the Peace Palace in The Hague is host to a historic
event this week – an investigation into the massacres of Iran’s
political prisoners throughout the 19 ...

Mahsa
Alimardani, published on The Vancouver Observer
(http://www.vancouverobserver.com) Oct 26th, 2012 The world’s seat of
international law, the Peace Palace in The Hague is host to a historic
event this week – an investigation into the massacres of Iran’s
political prisoners throughout the 19 ...

Oct
25, 2012 in New York, PSDC Blog Greetings. My name is Djibril Toure and
I am here today as a lifelong Brooklyn resident and member of the
Malcolm X Grassroots to lend my voice to those calling for a change in
the NYPD’s Stop & Frisk program, and passage of the Community Safety
Act. I am ...

Oct
25, 2012 in New York, PSDC Blog Greetings. My name is Djibril Toure and
I am here today as a lifelong Brooklyn resident and member of the
Malcolm X Grassroots to lend my voice to those calling for a change in
the NYPD’s Stop & Frisk program, and passage of the Community Safety
Act. I am ...

[While
the socialist fig-leaf of China no longer has the power to confuse all
who have watched, from near and from afar, the discarding of socialist
-- peasant and workers' -- power for over three decades, the Western
bourgeoisie have continued to slam the emergent exploitative and
oppressive C ...

Ken O'Keefe

Catherine
Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for
you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and
then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your
return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip
to ...

I
think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is
genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this
one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute
for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This
useful idi ...

It
is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than
those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of
which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we
become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that,
it has c ...

Today
is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian
hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for
refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense.
- Ken O'Keefe

StillSmallVoice

And
here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away
from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor
of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here.
Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and
-- I say th ...

"Peer
benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher.
Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren
Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich
don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has
refined his earlier ...

Associated Content

It's
been nearly a quarter-century since a Republican has carried California
in the race for president: Think Bush over Dukakis. But on California's
Central Coast, Obama supporters are still busy, focused on states that
aren't a sure win for Obama.Contributor: Mike Nemeth
Published: Oct 24, 2012

Between
living in these politically polarized times and living in the swing
state of Michigan, where there are also several hotly contested
Congressional, state and regional races, it’s been difficult to stay
above the fray.Contributor: Phil Watson
Published: Oct 22, 2012

There
is a tension in the air as Ohio approaches this election. It is caused
by the constant refrain of political advertising from television, radio,
yard signs, and others. To avoid it, vote early and with
care.Contributor: Phil Cole
Published: Oct 22, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, nicknamed "Bride of Frankenstorm" because it's almost
Halloween and because meteorologists are just the worst pun-makers ever,
was photographed by NASA's TRIMM satellite while centered over the
Bahamas this morning. It's due to hit the American southeast soon and
then head nort ...

From
the Popular Science archives: How to make your alarm clock water your
lawn, cook you breakfast, turn on a light and more Like anyone who's
ever seen "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," I fervently wish I had a Rube
Goldberg machine that made me breakfast for an alarm clock. While
vintage PopSci doe ...

Veterans Today

With
Sudan partitioned and Kenya currently operating in Somalia and stories
of terror cells springing up across Africa filling American and Israeli
“pop culture” news, the world is hearing the death knell of America’s
colonial adventure in the Middle East.”

Hudson's Weather & Climate

After
a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way
from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of
the season, albeit a short lived one.
Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and
the air will be cold enough for some ...

After
what has seemed like a relentless period of unsettled weather
stretching back to the end of March, it's nice to be able to report that
a quieter spell of weather seems likely next week - although talk of an
'Indian Summer', for our region at least, is a little far-fetched.
Friday and Sat ...

Sudden
stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological
circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of
2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century.
SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days
in t ...

Provisional
Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than
normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average.
It was also cooler but sunnier than normal.
Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the
country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...

The
deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of
Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not
quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the
autumn of 2000.
Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...

Internat'l Political Economy

Whoever
wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball -
Jacques Barzun [RIP]
Those with even a passing knowledge of baseball know that the Japanese
are the best in the world at this sport. Despite extending my
congratulations to the 2012 US champions the San Francisco Gia ...

Although
Swiss bankers have lost some of their cachet in recent years as
reputations for both banking secrecy and sound money management have
taken a hit, all is not lost. Even the seemingly hapless UBS has been
dinged mostly on their investment banking side and not their private
banking side. F ...

Rest
assured that it's not only the Chinese who have a habit of disowning
Nobel laureates. For the longest time, the British have shown disdain
for the European Union project over both their supposed loss of
sovereignty and the waste of money going to Brussels (or was that
Strasbourg?). To be su ...

Nobody
is immune to economic slowdowns, and it was perhaps only a matter of
China encountered such an episode. To paraphrase my erstwhile LSE IDEAS
colleague Martin Jacques, when China rules the world may be set back a
few years. Even the Associated Press via Yahoo! News has noticed that,
gee, m ...

Dear
readers, something most commentators missed in observing that the
United States has now had four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus
deficits is that something remarkable has transpired: For the first
time since 1955, US government spending has gone down--from fiscal year
2011 to 2012 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

Meteorologists
are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm
to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years. Do you
remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991? That storm was so bad that
Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it.
Well, ...

If
you still have a good job, you might want to hold on to it very tightly
because there are a whole bunch of signs that unemployment in the
United States is about to start getting worse again. Over the past
several weeks, a substantial number of large corporations have announced
disappointing ...

Have
you ever laid in bed awake at night with a knot in your stomach because
you didn't know how your family was possibly going to make it through
the next month financially? Have you ever felt the desperation of not
being able to provide the basic necessities for your family even though
you tr ...

What
if there was a financial system that would eliminate the need for the
federal government to go into debt, that would eliminate the need for
the Federal Reserve, that would end the practice of fractional reserve
banking and that would dethrone the big banks? Would you be in favor of
such a ...

Either
way this election turns out, American jobs are going to continue to get
slaughtered by the millions. During this campaign, Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama have both attempted to portray each other as the
"outsourcer in chief". Unfortunately, they are both right. Barack
Obama and Mitt Romn ...

E U Times

Along
with Britain’s anti-monarchy campaign group Republic that campaigns for
a democratic country consisting of an elected head of state, there
seems to be a high level of public support for abandoning the monarchy
in some of the nations of the Commonwealth. In 16 of the total of 54
Commonwealt ...

American
scientists have identified a male beluga whale capable of making
human-like sounds and spontaneously mimicking human conversations.
According to a paper published online in Current Biology, researchers
heard a nine-year-old whale named NOC emitting sounds octaves below
normal ones. The ...

We
were recently given the news that over 30 retail shops close every day –
suggesting that the demise of the High Street is gaining momentum. Many
reasons are put forward for this demise but the reason we see so many
empty shops is really very simple – and the reason incidentally, I got
out [...]

New
space debris could threaten the International Space Station and other
space missions after Russian rocket ‘Briz-M’ recently exploded into some
500 fragments, most of which are now floating in low Earth orbit. ­The
rocket was previously floating inert in space after it failed on a
mission to ...

Switzerland’s
Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter says his country does not support
any unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear energy
program. Burkhalter told reporters after a Thursday meeting with his
Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow that Bern is against uni ...

Voiceless Victim

Melbourne
Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he
opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with
his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which
reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even
started o ...

In
yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s
butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime
of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic
amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin
...

John
Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful
ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers
spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people
who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to
this day. ...

In
my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand
action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am
happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if
you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]

The
WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org
and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance
technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make
headlines.
read more

By
Nikolas Kozloff.
In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando
Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may
wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in
the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...

The
United Nations food agency today paid tribute to former United States
Senator George McGovern who died on Sunday at the age of 90, praising
his efforts to combat hunger in his own country as well as abroad.

A
group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called
on Colombian authorities to revisit the military criminal law provisions
of proposed constitutional reforms, warning they could have serious
implications for the rule of law, violate international law, and reverse
the Latin ...

Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to a key figure in the formation of the
United Nations, United States wartime President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who died just months before seeing his dream come true 67
years ago but whose global vision surmounting national boundaries still
gu ...

To Do

Poland is set to approve renewable-
energy laws that may spur a 100-fold increase in solar-power capacity
next year, just as the rest of Europe scales back. The country that has 3
megawatts of solar capacity may build as much as 400 megawatts next
year ...

Renewable
forms of energy are growing far faster than any other form of energy, a
BP economist said in Chicago last week, but are unlikely to
significantly impact the world's reliance on fossil fuels without
continued government interventions, such as ...

Since 2007, when North Carolina began requiring power companies to use renewable
energy, about 100 solar farms have registered to open, according to the
N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, a group that tracks the sun
business. Some of those may not ...

I
was out at Desert Mirage High School in Thermal on Wednesday, talking
with students in the school's green-tech career academy about what I do
as an energy and green-tech reporter — ask people a lot of questions
about very technical things and try to ...

Human Habitat

Among the reports received this year by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology)
was an 1,800-pound horse that fell into an abandoned well in Centralia
in August after a concrete lid covering the top of the well collapsed
under the horse's weight.

It
is a recycling project on a grand scale that ultimately might please
flora and fauna as well as nature-lovers near Sterling State Park.
Contractors have constructed an earthen dike off E. Elm Ave. east of
I-75 into the marshlands of the state park ...

Last
winter, the air quality monitor at the Hal Holmes Center on Ruby Street
recorded 17 days when the air had equal or more particulate matter than
the Department of Ecology's healthy air goals. Inhalation of fine particles has been associated with ...

( When I visited my friend Tom Pekoe who for years was dying from liver damaged from inhaling air at a natural gas cracking plant - the office manager suffered the same death and an engineer I knew who lost the ability to read worked at the same complex - his natural gas furnace was OFF. He could only tolerate the wood stove for heat...smoke and all. )

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Storm
surges like those accompanying Hurricane Sandy as it churns north in
the Atlantic Ocean are, at their simplest, a function of strong winds
driving too much water into too small a space. But other factors, some of which will come into play as this ...

A storm surge is not a big wave, rather it's a bubble of water
that moves inland over time caused by the wind and pressure
configuration of the storm itself. Inlets, bays, and harbors will see water levels rise for many hours and several high tide ...

Silicon Valley's largest drinking-water
provider faces a wide variety of challenges -- from retrofitting aging
dams to funding flood control projects from Palo Alto to San Jose to
Morgan Hill. But for the six candidates running to fill two seats on the
...

HOXIE,
Kan.—For decades, farmers here have tapped a vast underground reservoir
to irrigate their fields to grow corn, soybeans and wheat. Now they are
reluctantly starting to reduce their water use, fearing a dwindling supply could otherwise make them ...

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